Saef, does this mean you are moving in with your mom for the time being?

9/6: 31:15 6.75 mile bike ride

Nil, so far, but I hope to manage some physio exercises later, floor space permitting.

Saef, it sounds as though you've decamped Upstate for a bit. That sounds like a sound move. I do hope you continue to find harvest time and the fall beautiful and uplifting. Are you taking some R&R time? Yes, surely. :hug:

September 6: 60 minutes elliptical

Totals:
6 days
466 minutes

Jessica, yes indeed, I'm back in my old bedroom at my mother's house, though with my clothes stuffed into the chest of drawers in yet another room, the guest bedroom, because a lot of my mother's clothes seem to have migrated into my old bedroom closet, dresser and chest of drawers. It's an awkward solution to my homelessness, as I found while working from home yesterday, as my mother tried to "coach me" while I had my weekly one-on-one call with my manager. ("Tell her your car broke down on the way here. Tell her you're getting a wireless setup this afternoon.") Anyway ...

Wednesday, Sept. 7:

I joined the gym yesterday (just $15 a month) and so went there in the morning.

15 minutes warmup on Nautilus elliptical, intervals, resistance at eight and three
60 minutes back and biceps routine with weights
45 minutes Nautilus elliptical, intervals, resistance at nine and three

This gym doesn't provide towels. So I brought my own, or rather, one of my mother's, as all my towels are gone, turned to black slime in the flood. Now, a few years ago, at an antique show, my mother got a deal on a bolt of old machine-made lace, and she sewed lace on the border of her towels. So there I was, in the free weight section, which is huge at this gym, full of big meaty guys, many of them military or ex-military. I had my lace-edged towel spread over the bench as I went through the P90X back and biceps routine. No guy went near it. Perhaps they were afraid that picking up a lace-edged towel might immediately emasculate them -- like holding a woman's purse is said to do. (I've seen men hold purses for women, keeping them slightly away from their bodies, as if they were small dead animals, with a look on their faces clearly meant to dissociate themselves from the purse: "Look, this isn't mine, but the girlfriend/wife asked me to hold it, so whaddya gonna do?"

Sounds like you are working out a plan Saef, albeit not perfect, but doable. My dh is one of those men that CANNOT hold a purse. He might catch something I guess. My dh's dad holds his wife's all the time. Perhaps the fact that we make fun of him makes my dh less likely to hold mine for a minute!

LOL about the lace towel Saef. Perhaps you could mark off one room of the house as the "office" and tell your mom to never disturb you when you are in the office with the door shut, because you are working?

9/7: 2 mile powerwalk, 27:41; 10 rollups, 10 rollovers

September 7: 50 minutes boot camp (tried a new class and the instructor was 10 minutes late:mad:). The class was very good though. I usually do Bikram Yoga on Wednesday but we had Back to School Night so it wouldn't work in my schedule. I went to my last back to school night ever. Hard to imagine....:(

Totals:
7 days
516 minutes

Saef, I'm starting to suspect our moms were separated at birth. I had this same issue when I had to spend several months at home between jobs. I was trying to keep up on my publications, and my mom does not regard reading or "sitting at the computer" as actual productive work, leading to lots of interruptions. You will probably need to think about establishing a space, perhaps if it is hard to set boundaries, not in the house? I spent a lot of time at the local public library (which also had study rooms you could use).

Sept 8:
20 minutes elliptical (first in two months! Yay!)
15 minutes walking on treadmill
physio exercises

It is ridiculous how I am looking forward to my grilled vegetables today.

Hey, Bronzeager! I have to admit that I've read your name two ways in the past: As someone from the Age of Bronze, or as someone who is both Bronzed and Eager (which sounds kind of like a porno starring a Beyonce lookalike, and hey, she's not a bad person to look like).

I've also thought about using the library, but the thing is, I have meetings on the phone all day, or one-on-one discussions regarding the writing I'm working on, and I'd be yakking into the phone, which would be very annoying to other library patrons. In particular, I have a bad memory of having to deal with a password change while I was on vacation, and going to a public library to use a computer to change it remotely, and having to call tech support in Bangalore, and shortly afterward getting kicked out of the library for talking loudly. (The connection to India was bad & I had to keep repeating myself and what the tech support said, as the person's accent wasn't good.) I feel awful about this in retrospect. I am not normally a person who is disruptive in libraries. In fact, I am very respectful of books, reading, study time, etc.

Anyway ....

4 mile run on the same route as Tuesday, except I ran it backward, going counter clockwise, and found it's tougher that way because of a gradual but pronounced elevation.

:lol3: When was the last time you lived with one of your parents jessica? Most parents never, ever totally respect your borders, no matter how adult you are. I finally locked the room's door and wore earplugs. My dad broke the door down with a crowbar (admittedly he is a nutjob and saef's mom is not) because he "thought I might be in trouble". :crazy:

I hope you can work out a better solution with your parent saef.

Dagmar :cool:

I disagree. Neither of my parents ever disturbed me if I had my door closed, even when I was young. But perhaps this isn't typical.

Yeah, I'd say your father is more than a nutjob, Mudpie.

Jay

Hi! Saef, I wish I handled adversity like you have been doing.

I started 30 day shred and today was day 8 of level 1. Then as time allows I do an extra 10 to 20'minutes in the treadmill. I can definitely tell the difference in muscle tone. I continue to lose weight thus I am now maintaining a loss of 63 pounds and I am 2 pounds away from healthy bmi.

I'm feeling anxious since I am now getting into uncharted waters meaning I have not being under 135 in my adult life, maybe in 8th grade... Not sure what to expect... Did any of you feel like that?

September 8:
50 minutes elliptical

Totals:
8 days
566 minutes

Charin, you weren't here at my mother's house yesterday, hearing me be nasty and sarcastic with her out of stress because she'd called the FiOS guy from Verizon to take down our DSL & install our new high-speed Internet connection just as I dealt with an as-soon-as-possible project at work, a contentious new assignment and two corrections of previously published work, all hitting me consecutively within 10 minutes of each other. I thought I would scream, and then the insurance adjuster informed me the damage on my apartment is considered flood damage, not hurricane damage, and therefore I am not covered. Shortly after that, I went for my noon-hour run.

And for today, Friday, Sept. 9:

15 minutes Nautilus elliptical, backward, warmup
60 minutes arms and shoulders weight routine
45 minutes Nautilus elliptical, intervals, resistance at 9 and 3, with my feet going a little numb. I have to figure out how to work the pedals on this thing, as it's not like the elliptical I'd been using at my other gym.